An Original Personal Token of Affection and Remembrance from Arthur Conan Doyle to his Wife Jean Leckie. In an Individual Envelope dated 1925 and stating ‘The first snow drop picked for me by my beloved Arthur’ and dated 1925 in the Hand of Jean Leckie, Arthur Conan Doyle’s wife. The Envelope contains a dried flower and some small silver foil horseshoes and foil ladies’ shoes, being confetti thrown at the wedding of Doyle and Leckie in 1907. Provenance: According to their son Adrian Conan Doyle, 'Here are the heartbeats of love. Year in and year out, my father would gather the first snowdrop for my mother up to the final spring of his life (1930) and year in and year out she preserved them. A Herein are samples of a romance that was as fresh and as passionate at the end as it was at its commencement. May he yet gather for her each spring the snowdrop of a greater world'. For a few years after the authors death, she carried on collecting snow drops from the same place. The item was originally part of a larger collection of memorabilia sold by Christie's in their auction of The Conan Doyle Collection at King Street, London, on 19th May 2004 (Lot 133).